The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-12-06
DURING THE WEEK.
The Weeks Synopsis of General
and Local News
CONDENSED FOR OUR WEEKLY FRIENDS

Tuesday, November 29.-Ninety-fvo cigar
factories shut down in Havana Cuba, OWING to &C.
nand by the cigar-makers for an increase IN wages
Twelve thousand hands are thrown out OF employ
ment. The Montgomery, Ala, Touring mills were
destroyed by fire in Montgomery, causing a loss OF
$4,000. The PAINT establishment OF Billings q
Co, and the Ohio Steel Barb Wire fence company,
Of Cleveland Ohio were destroyed by fire, causinga
$4,000 loss. =. Baron Hirseh gave the magnificent
sum of f2,0000N for the benefit Of the Jews IN
Europe, his object being the founding of primary
school in Russia. - The condition of the crown
prince is flattering for complete recovery. THE
ginhoue and several bales Of cotton belonging to
Mr.. Isaac B. Florence was destroyed by FIRE in
Powder Springs, causing loss osSj,oU0 with no in
suIance.
Wednesday, November 3o.-John H. Parker,
employed at planning mill at DaIbys Mills, Fla,
accidentally caught in the shafting and instant
ly killed. The thermometer registered thirynine
degrees below zero at Waterloo, Iowa. on Tuesday,
the coolest weather ever known there up to this
time. Mr. Baas Harrison, of Columbus, who had
fit and fell into the fire in that city last week, has
died from injuries recved.. The ginhouse, four
bales of cotton the seed from twenty-one bales of
cotton and $3.50 gin belonging to Mr. v Thorp,
near Americas, was destroyed by fire, supposed to
be the work of some tramps whom Mr. Thorp had
ordered Off his place. The ginhouse and grist mill
of Mr.. l. w. Florence, near Douglasville, were
destroyed by fire, nothing being saved.
Thursday, December 1.--"Aunt" Jane Col
Inns, old negress of Nashville, Tenn died at the
advanced age of one hundred and nineteen years.
She was a servant girl to General Jackson. Dr.
Mccullough was shot and instantly killed by a
farmer named II cks at Stevenson, Ala Daniel
smith, q small boy Of Chattanooga, Tenn, was play
ing with pulley belt, when his clothes became
entangled managing him in horrible manner
He lived O couple of hours, when he died in great
HIT MIN In ing atnr
main in Chattanooga passing freight train came
by and Jared the earth so that the banks of the
ditch cayed in, killing both men instantly. A fire
in Aiken s. c., destroyed nine buildings, causing q
loss of $4,000.
Friday, December 2.-The Strobridge Litho-
graphing company, of Cincinnati, the largest bust
ness of its kind in the world, destroyed by fire.
causinga loss estimated at from 100000, to $780,
Oc0. The Lawrence hotel in Brookville, Kansas
was destroyed by fire, burning four men to death,
who were guests of the hotel. Guests were COM
PEELED to jump from second story windows to save
themselves The loss is between twenty-five and
thirty thousand dollars Jacob Sharp has been
bailed in the sum of forty thousand dollars. He is
very feeble in health and it is thought that he will
not live through the trial that has been granted
him. a little three year-old child was burned is
death at Pikeville Tenn. The ginhouse, screw
and four bales of cotton belonging to Mr.. 9. ].
Coody, near Macon, were destroyed by fire, causing
q loss of 500, with 81 90 insurance.
Saturday, December "a large fire occurred at
Eminence, KY, destroying Duncans jewelry store,
Miller's grocery the town hotel, Moody q ProctoIs
grocery, Morris & Bros, lumber and coal yard,
O'Connell's butcher shop and large carriage
factory No estimate of the damage could be given,
as the fire was still raging at the time the news was
telegraphed. Work on the Georgia, Carolina and
Northern railroad, the road which is being built
from Monroe to Atlanta is progressing rapidly and
arrangements have just been completed whereby
the hands can work night and day "A Locomotive
boiler, drawing freight train on the Philadelphia
and Reading railroad explode, killing Alexan-
der Walker, engineer, Instantly and injuring
Freeman GoulGos. Wallace Ettin9er, David
Thegcr and Joseph Reifsnider, brakeman, so
badly that they died while being taken
home John T. Brooks, who lives at Collins
vile, Ala, locked three Of his children in hi
house, and accompanied by his wife, went visiting
to the house of a neghbor. When they returned
the house was burnt down and one of the children
had persisted in tie flames. Simon Co.. cothiers
of Mobile, Ala failed with liabilities, $4,000, assets
$4,000.
Sunday, Dccember4.-An earthG uake occurred
at BesigsnanO, Calabria, demolshlng twenty houses
aud killing several persons The fouryelr old
Ct John w. Bailey of Frederick county, Va, fell
backward into pot of hot lard and was horribly
burned, dying in n few hours William Bell,
highly respected young man of Manchester, Tenn,
attempted to board a moving passenger train, when
he missed his footing and fell under the car, which
passed over his body, killing him instantly. Ia
mad dog in Chattanooga, Tenn got loose and going
to the house of William Baxter, bit his two sons and
a neighbor named Douglass. The entire fleshy part
of one of Nj Bakers boys legs torn off, and it
is certain that he will die with the chances against
the other two.